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• 10:02, 3 December 2020 ‎Blanket deposit (hist) ‎[291 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "# A horizontal, tabular orebody; manto; bedded vein. <i>AGI </i> # A sedimentary deposit of great areal extent and relatively uniform thickness; esp. a blanket sand and assoc...")
• 10:01, 3 December 2020 ‎Blanket (hist) ‎[625 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "# A textile material used in ore treatment plants for catching coarse free gold and some associated minerals; e.g., pyrite. The blanket is taken up periodically and washed in...")
• 10:00, 3 December 2020 ‎Blank reaming shell (hist) ‎[173 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A reaming shell in which no reaming diamonds or other cutting media are inset on the outside surface. <i>Long </i> Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:57, 3 December 2020 ‎Blank pipe (hist) ‎[118 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Unperforated pipe or casing set in a borehole. <i>Long </i> Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:57, 3 December 2020 ‎Blank hole (hist) ‎[264 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "# A borehole in which no minerals or other substances of value were penetrated. Syn: barren hole; dry hole. <i>Long </i> # The uncased portion of a borehole. Syn: b...")
• 09:57, 3 December 2020 ‎Blank bit (hist) ‎[76 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See: bit blank Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:53, 3 December 2020 ‎Blakeite (hist) ‎[427 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "# Anhydrous ferric tellurite as reddish-brown microcrystalline (cubic?) crusts from Goldfield, NV. <i>Spencer, 3 </i> # Titanozirconate of thorium, uranium, calcium, iron, et...")
• 09:53, 3 December 2020 ‎Blake Morscher separator (hist) ‎[90 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See: electrostatic separator Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:53, 3 December 2020 ‎Blake jaw crusher (hist) ‎[526 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The original crusher of jaw type. A crusher with one fixed jaw plate and one pivoted at the top so as to give the greatest movement on the smallest lump. Motion is imparted to...")
• 09:53, 3 December 2020 ‎Blake furnace (hist) ‎[219 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A furnace, the hearth of which consists of terraces rising from the outer edge to the center. The hearth is circular and revolves when in operation. <i>Fay </i> Source: Dict...")
• 09:52, 3 December 2020 ‎Blake breaker (hist) ‎[122 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A jaw breaker or particular kind of jaw crusher. <i>Nelson </i> Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:52, 3 December 2020 ‎Blaize (hist) ‎[72 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See: blaes Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:52, 3 December 2020 ‎Blaisdell vat excavator (hist) ‎[86 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See: Blaisdell excavator Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:52, 3 December 2020 ‎Blaisdell loading machinery (hist) ‎[300 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An apparatus for loading sand tanks. It consists of a rapidly revolving disk with curved radial vanes. The disk is hung on a shaft in the tank center, and the sand dropped on...")
• 09:52, 3 December 2020 ‎Blaisdell excavator (hist) ‎[366 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An apparatus for automatically discharging a sand tank having a central bottom opening. It consists of a central vertical shaft carrying four arms fitted with round plow disks...")
• 09:51, 3 December 2020 ‎Blair process (hist) ‎[170 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An improved form of the Chenot process for making sponge iron by heating crushed iron oxide and coal in retorts. Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:51, 3 December 2020 ‎Blaes (hist) ‎[207 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A Scottish term for a gray-blue carbonaceous shale that weathers to a crumbly mass and eventually to a soft clay. See also: blaize <i>AGI </i> Source: Dictionary of Mi...")
• 09:50, 3 December 2020 ‎Bladed structure (hist) ‎[135 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Consisting of individual minerals flattened like a knife blade. <i>Hess </i> Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:50, 3 December 2020 ‎Bladed (hist) ‎[135 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Decidedly elongated and flattened; descriptive of some minerals. <i>Fay </i> Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:49, 3 December 2020 ‎Blade mill (hist) ‎[170 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Trommel washer with lifting blades, which aid in disintegration and scrubbing of passing feed. <i>Pryor, 3 </i> Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:48, 3 December 2020 ‎Bladder pump (hist) ‎[408 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A positive displacement pump in which compressed air is forced down an input column to squeeze a water-filled bladder, thereby forcing water up a discharge column to the groun...")
• 09:47, 3 December 2020 ‎Blacklung (hist) ‎[78 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See: anthracosis Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:47, 3 December 2020 ‎Blacklead ore (hist) ‎[120 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An early name for the black variety of cerussite. <i>Fay </i> Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 09:47, 3 December 2020 ‎Blackjack (hist) ‎[252 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "# A thin stratum of coal interbedded with layers of slate; a slaty coal with a high ash content. <i>AGI </i> # A syn. of sphalerite, esp. a dark variety. See also: sphaleri...")
• 09:46, 3 December 2020 ‎Blackdamp (hist) ‎[669 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Generally applied to carbon dioxide. Strictly speaking, a mixture of nitrogen and carbon dioxide. The average blackdamp contains 10% to 15% carbon dioxide and 85% to 90% nitro...")
• 11:21, 2 December 2020 ‎Blackband ore (hist) ‎[76 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See: blackband Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:21, 2 December 2020 ‎Blackband ironstone (hist) ‎[229 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A dark variety of clay ironstone containing sufficient carbonaceous matter (10% to 20%) to make it self-calcining (without the addition of extra fuel). Syn: blackband So...")
• 11:21, 2 December 2020 ‎Blackband (hist) ‎[393 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "# A dark, earthy variety of the mineral siderite, occurring mixed with clay, sand, and considerable carbonaceous matter, and frequently associated with coal. Syn: blackband...")
• 11:19, 2 December 2020 ‎Black wad (hist) ‎[145 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An early name for several minerals, including graphite and the softer manganese oxides. Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:19, 2 December 2020 ‎Black tin (hist) ‎[140 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Eng. Dressed tin ore ready to be smelted; from Cornwall. See also: cassiterite Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:19, 2 December 2020 ‎Black tellurium (hist) ‎[177 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "# A rare gray metallic mineral, a sulfotelluride of gold and lead with some antimony. <i>CTD </i> # See: nagyagite Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:19, 2 December 2020 ‎Black telluride (hist) ‎[76 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See: nagyagite Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:19, 2 December 2020 ‎Black smoker (hist) ‎[363 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A hydrothermal vent at the crest of an oceanic ridge; e.g., the East Pacific Rise at the mouth of the Gulf of California. Waters blackened by sulfide precipitates jet out at 1...")
• 11:18, 2 December 2020 ‎Black silver (hist) ‎[77 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See: stephanite Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:18, 2 December 2020 ‎Black shale (hist) ‎[1,047 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "# A dark, thinly laminated carbonaceous shale, exceptionally rich in organic matter (5% or more carbon content) and sulfide (esp. iron sulfide, usually pyrite), and often cont...")
• 11:18, 2 December 2020 ‎Black sand (hist) ‎[355 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "# An alluvial or beach sand consisting predominantly of grains of heavy, dark minerals or rocks (e.g., magnetite, rutile, garnet, or basaltic glass), concentrated chiefly by w...")
• 11:17, 2 December 2020 ‎Black rouge (hist) ‎[221 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A precipitated black magnetic iron oxide. Used mainly in plate printing inks and in paints, but has small abrasive applications. See also: black magnetic rouge Source: Di...")
• 11:17, 2 December 2020 ‎Black roast (hist) ‎[167 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In fluidization roasting (fluosolids process), the conversion of iron sulfide to magnetite. <i>Pryor, 3 </i> Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:17, 2 December 2020 ‎Black powder (hist) ‎[213 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A deflagrating or low-explosive granular compound of sulfur, charcoal, and an alkali nitrate, usually potassium or sodium nitrate. Syn: black gunpowder Source: Dictionary...")
• 11:17, 2 December 2020 ‎Black pigment (hist) ‎[117 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lampblack obtained by burning common coal tar. <i>Fay </i> Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:16, 2 December 2020 ‎Black oxide of manganese (hist) ‎[77 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See: pyrolusite Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:10, 2 December 2020 ‎Black ore (hist) ‎[482 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "# Eng. Partly decomposed pyrite containing copper. <i>Fay </i> # In uranium mining, the term may mean ore containing a high proportion of pitchblende, uraninite, coffinite, o...")
• 11:10, 2 December 2020 ‎Black opal (hist) ‎[235 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Precious opal with play of color (commonly red or green) displayed against a dark gray (rarely black) body color; e.g., the fine Australian blue opal with flame-colored flashe...")
• 11:10, 2 December 2020 ‎Black ocher (hist) ‎[86 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See: wad; bog manganese. Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:10, 2 December 2020 ‎Black mud (hist) ‎[226 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A mud formed in lagoons, sounds, or bays, in which there is poor circulation or weak tides. The color is black because of iron sulfides and organic matter. <i>AGI </i> Sourc...")
• 11:09, 2 December 2020 ‎Black muck (hist) ‎[157 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lanc. A dark-brown powdery substance, consisting of silica, alumina, and iron; found in iron mines. Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:09, 2 December 2020 ‎Black mica (hist) ‎[74 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See: biotite Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:09, 2 December 2020 ‎Black metal (hist) ‎[115 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A black shale associated with coal measures. <i>AGI </i> Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")
• 11:09, 2 December 2020 ‎Black manganese (hist) ‎[181 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "# See: hausmannite # A term applied to dark-colored manganese minerals; e.g., pyrolusite, hausmannite, and psilomelane. Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related...")
• 11:08, 2 December 2020 ‎Black magnetic rouge (hist) ‎[153 bytes] ‎Webref (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A polishing material consisting of 99% Fe₃ O₄ . See also: black rouge Source: Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms")

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